Monday, 19 October 2020
Quote from the true Charm and power of Vedanta
Modern man in search of Religion
The complexities of modern life have made man’s lie most miserable. Physically he has many amenities-much more than what people of even two centuries back had-but mentally his sufferings have increased in a geometrical proportion. Man has become more refined and as such more sensitive, and various problems have arisen which were altogether unknown before. This is very clearly reflected in the literature of modern times nowadays novels and dramas deal not so much with big characters as with the mental conflict from which a man suffers. The solutions which the findings of psychology suggest as we have seen are worse than the disease. For they create new problems while trying to offer solutions for existing ones. Man in despair does not know where to turn,. He visits cinemas, goes to sports, launches into adventures for their own sake, in order to get some respite and relaxation. He feels like a hunted hare within closed walls which in the mend attempt to escape only dashes its-head against hard stones.
The situation though dismal has got this hopeful feature, that because the sufferings of men have become very intense or are becoming grater and greater, he will try all the more earnestly to find a remedy. Solution found so far, have been disappointing no doubt, but persistent efforts are sure to be fruitful in time.
All great discoveries and inventions have been in fulfillment of some urgent need. This is true of things spiritual also. Religion originates from, pessimistic views about the world and worldly things, but ends in finding a solution which gives a new meaning to everything-even to thins mundane. Buddha left the world because he found in full of misery, but his discovery of Truth brought unalloyed happiness to millions of suffering souls.
Health, Energy And Freedom
The Speaking Tree | Lifestyle | ET
By J KRISHNAMURTI
Freedom, health and the quality of energy come when one captures or sees, perceives the truth of all time contained in the now. Right? What is freedom?
All human beings throughout the ages have sought some kind of freedom, historically, religiously and so on.…
Health means energy — right? When there is no conflict whatsoever, then there is tremendous health. Can the brain be free of problems? Yes, if your brain is no longer a slave to linguistic control, linguistic images, and has understood the nature of freedom, real freedom in which there is no sense of moving away from something. If you move away from, let’s say, from anxiety, the movement is time. And, therefore, that movement may appear secure, but that movement has inherently in itself uncertainty.
It is just common sense.
Health is destroyed by the constant conflict, achievement, success, ambition, uncertainty, confusion, all the pain of life.
And energy, energy never dissipated. Energy implies constant movement, constant discovering of something new, not technologically, psychologically.
When you have that energy, then you can look at problems.… And understand time. They are all dovetailed, they all fit together, they are not separate. It is one long steady movement.
Abridged excerpt from a public talk given in 1984 at Saanen, Switzerland. Courtesy: KFI
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.
–But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m
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